Vicki Weaver

Victoria "Vicki" Weaver (1949-21 August 1992) was the wife of Randy Weaver and the mother of Samuel Weaver. A Christian fundamentalist and white supremacist, she was killed during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff.

Biography
Victoria Weaver was born in 1949 to a Community of Christ Mormon family, and she married US Army Green Berets soldier Randy Weaver, living with him in rural Iowa. She became a Christian fundamentalist who was convinced that an apocalypse was innocent, and she converted her husband to her faith; the two of them took their children with them to a remote cabin in Naples, Idaho (30 miles from the Canadian border), leaving behind Iowa in order to escape "corrupt civilization". Vicki raised the children without television or other "graven images", and she homeschooled them. She and her husband also attended Aryan Nations gatherings with the goal of making friends, and, while they disagreed on religious matters, they adopted their white supremacist views. In 1992, her husband was ordered to court for sawing off shotguns for the Aryan Nations, and, when he refused, federal agents were sent to arrest him on 21 August. They killed the family dog when it alerted the family to their presence, and they were forced to kill the family's 14-year-old son Samuel Weaver when he shot at the agents in revenge. The next day, federal agents fired on Randy Weaver as he walked to the shed where he kept his son's body, and Vicki and the others ran out to check on Randy. As they prepared to head back into the cabin on the porch, an FBI sniper shot and killed Vicki. For days, the agents were unaware that Vicki was dead, and used a bullhorn to call out for Vicki to send her children to have pancakes with the agents. The family believed this to be taunts, hardening Randy's resolve for the next eight days of the siege. Randy ultimately surrendered and served only 18 months in prison, and, in 1995, he was awarded $3.1 million in damages for Sam and Vicki's deaths.